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Check Disk space in Kali Linux

After installing Kali Linux on hard drive or on virtual machine, we may have come across with a warning message of " Low Disk usage ". It happens when we allocate insufficient disk space during partition for kali linux or else when we do a regular "update" and "upgrade" of patches or downloading softwares. Kali Linux comes with a graphical built-in tool, i.e. Disk Usage Analyzer . This tool helps you to check the disk space usage. There are other options too, to check usage as per file system. If you need to check from terminal(for non-gui users), then there are two classic commands available for every linux distros, i.e.  (a) df : Report file system disk space usage (b) du : Estimate file space usage df command is used to check free disk space. You can type df -h or df -k to list free disk space. It displays statistics about the amount of free disk space on the specified file system or on the file system of which file is a part. Values are displayed in...

Installing Kali Linux- A step-by-step instruction

Kali Linux, ver.: 1.0.3 Prerequisites: Minimum 8 GB of HDD space to install Kali Linux For i386 or amd64 architecture, a minimum of 512 MB RAM (1024 MB RAM recommended) An ISO or VMWare image can be downloaded from  Kali Linux  site Here, I am going to guide you step by step to install Kali Linux  (ver. 1.0.2) in a virtual machine. Procedure of installation is very much similar to Backtrack. Click on the above link to download Kali Linux. When you goto this link it will ask you to register, however registration is not mandatory to download Kali Linux. Either, you can register by giving your name or email address to receive information updates or simply you can skip this step and click on " No thanks, just want to download! ". Depending on the type, you can customize your download in ISO  or VMWare  format. Click on " Download Kali" . Once Kali Linux  is downloaded you are ready to install it in a virtual machine. I am using VMWare Player version: 5.0....